28
Sep
2009
By Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant.
Ever played Half Life2? that’s looks just like it.
This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an “anti-insurgent weapon” — it could easily be used as a torture tool.
Pittsburgh police demonstrated the latest in crowd control techniques on protesters when they used “sound cannons” to Read the rest of this entry
28
Sep
2009
“[RepRap] has been called the invention that will bring down global capitalism, start a second industrial revolution and save the environment…”
- The front page of The Guardian, November 25, 2006.
27
Sep
2009
| October 2, 2009 | ||
| 18:00 | to | 19:00 |
Date: Friday October 2nd
Time: 6:00 – 7.30pm
Location:
Suite 5-7,
2 The Block,
Hindmarsh Square,
Adelaide, South Australia
(1 minute walk from the Rundle Mall Lantern)
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23
Sep
2009
A very interesting TED talk regarding the random acts of kindness web users potray.
This talk shows that money is not the only incentive and cooperation is the key to successful social networking.
22
Sep
2009
(from www.blog.peta.org)
This weekend, an attempt by Ronald McDonald to con San Francisco youngsters into eating more greasy, artery-clogging burgers and McNuggets was interrupted by an anonymous “chicken,” who apparently was not going to take McDonald’s abuse of chickens lying down.
Here comes the wind-up …
22
Sep
2009
17
Sep
2009
Advertisements from Metro newspaper that tell its readers to ‘Think for Yourself’ where the campaign message is that the paper provide the facts so that the readers can decide for themselves. Created by advertising agency CLM BBDO.
15
Sep
2009
Word Domination PC by David Zwolski
Hello everyone and welcome to the bi-weekly Zeitgeist Movement meetings. Today I will give a presentation on the misconceptions of technology and its use in the Venus Project. Over the past two weeks, I have conducted a survey and researched Jacque Fresco’s book, Designing the Future. I will start by introducing the findings of my survey which I conducted at my high school. I asked 2 questions to find out peoples opinion on the issue of computers in place of politics. The questions were:
12
Sep
2009
